Lawyer Was Correctly Denied ‘Space Force’ Trademark, Court Rules

A California attorney’s attempt to register a trademark for “US Space Force” shortly after President Donald Trump proposed forming the military branch was rightly rejected, the Federal Circuit ruled.

The US Patent and Trademark Office correctly determined the mark would falsely suggest an association with the US government and denied Thomas D. Foster APC’s application, Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore wrote in a precedential opinion released Wednesday by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Foster applied to register the mark on March 19, 2018, six days after Trump pitched establishing the Space Force, according to the opinion. ...